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oWe
advise a range of clients, from large multinational corporations to growing start-up companies. We devise resolutions for tax concerns and offers aggressive
investment solutions, with the main optimal goal to establish efficient structures. We offer
advices on areas such as international financial products, ongoing tax planning
for multinational clients, international tax planning, and much more.

oWe
devise an approach to M&A planning, staying perceptive and observant to the
different kinds of federal and state securities and fillings and compliance
laws, tax, securities, employee benefits, intellectual property, and other
matters that may be present in M&A.

oWe
engage in different types of M&A matters such as below:

•Acquisition
for control

•Joint
ventures

•Private
equity

•Strategic
mergers

•Preparation
for prospective targets

•Asset
sales/purchases

•Etc.

·Securities

oOur
expertise in securities include:

•Venture
financing

•Investment
banking

•Private
placements

•Etc.

oWe represent
clients on documents for all products, and in securities transactions that
range from small investment to multi-billion dollar private equity
acquisitions.

·Startups & Startup Financing &
Investment

oWe
help entrepreneurs choose the best business/legal strategies to help their startup
companies with growth, financing, plans, and structure in the context of
venture capital financings, and M&A. We advise on following:

oForming
subsidiaries in the United States and setting up the legal relationship with
the headquarters overseas in accordance with tax law

oSetting
the range of managerial rights and interests that must be transferred to
investors for investment from venture capital funds. Carrying out a legal
assessment of the intellectual property and management structure of the company

·Additions:

oWe establish companies in the form of Partnership, Corporation, or Limited Liability
Company (LLC) in accordance with the prescribed regulations. We prepare bylaws
after considering the management, financial structure, and tax issues including
business registration with the state

oWe
amend/register bylaws for issue or change of stocks with the consideration of
difference between the preferred stock and common stock

oWe draft,
revise, and interpret shareholders agreements. We handle lawsuits brought by
shareholders or the board of directors

oWe
help with application, registration, and renewal of various business licenses

Commercial Law

·We draft and review contracts
associated with various business transactions.

·We help make claims for the unauthorized
use or disclosure of trade secrets

·We also help file a creditor’s claim
for a payment or lawsuit with regard to a default on a payment obligation
secured by a note in conjunction with a commercial transaction

·We advise legal issues relating to Franchise
Agreements

Litigation

·Utilizing our deep trial experience, we are prepared to represent and defend
our clients through any trial, verdict and appeal from our deep trial experience.
We are skilled in providing any alternative dispute resolution including
arbitration, neutral evaluation, negotiation, and early settlement. We obtain
relevant evidence and research thoroughly for statutory and case law.

·We initiate lawsuits by drafting a
complaint as an attorney for a plaintiff and defend or counter-plead as an
attorney for our clients.

·Admitted to practice before all
California courts, Central and Northern District Federal Court, 9th Circuit
Court, and Bankruptcy Appellate Panel

·Litigation work include:

oCommercial
Litigation

oEmployment
Law

oIntellectual
Property Litigation

o Etc.

Immigration

·We help with the application, renewal,
or related works of non-immigrant visas such as Trading (E-1), Investment (E-2), Working
(H-1B), Intra-company Transferee (L-1), Foreign Exchange Program (J-1), Student
(F-1), Religious (R-1), and help with cases that are related to immigration by
employment or investment.

·We also help with immigration petitions
as following:

oForeign
nationals that possess extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education,
business or athletics; outstanding professors or researchers; managers and
executives on international transfer to the U.S. (EB-1)

oForeign
nationals who have exceptional ability in the sciences, arts or business; are
advanced degree professionals (NIW) or qualified alien physicians who will
practice medicine in an underserved area of the U.S.
(EB-2)

oForeign nationals with at least two years' experience
as skilled workers; professionals with bachelor's degrees, professionals with
bachelor's degrees who do not qualify for either categories EB-1 and EB-2;
aliens with at least two years of experience as skilled workers; professionals
with a baccalaureate degree; and unskilled workers who can contribute abilities
unavailable in the U.S. (EB-3)

oReligious
workers, aliens who have worked for the U.S. government overseas and
widows/widowers of U.S. citizens are among those who qualify for work-related
green cards as special immigrants (EB-4)